قلب الجزيرة في يمينك يخفقُ

وهوى العروبة في جبينك يشرقُ

The heart of the peninsula beats in your right hand,

And the passion of Arabism shines on your forehead,

ولعمر مجد المسلمين لأنت في

أنظارهم أمل منير شيقُ

By the glory of the Muslims, you are in their eyes,

A shining hope, most beloved and ardent.

وهبوك أفئدة الولا ووهبتهم

مجداً تقدسه القلوب وتعشقُ

They have given you their hearts and allegiance,

And you have given them glory that hearts revere and love.

إن الجزيرة شرقها ودبورها

وشمالها حرم بوجهك مونقُ

Arabia’s east, west, north and south,

Are a forbidden realm with your graceful face.

وحدتها ونفخت في أرجائها

روحا تُحب بها البلاد وتعتقُ

You have unified it and breathed into its regions,

A spirit with which to love the country and free it.

ويكاد منها الصخر يمشى حاسراً

لك عن معاينه التي لا ترمقُ

That even rocks would walk humbled before you,

Unable to behold your unmatched nobility.

قل لي بربك أي كف عبدت

لك منهجاً ما كان قبلك يطرقُ

Tell me, by your Lord, which hand have you raised,

To pave a path never tread by others before you?

وبأي عزم قمت وحدك ناهضاً

والنوم في جفن العروبة مطبقُ

With what resolve did you rise up alone,

While sleep weighed heavy on Arabia’s eyelids?

جردت للطاغين سيفاً صارماً

فتمزقت آثارهم وتمزقوا

You brandished a sharp sword at the tyrants,

Tearing apart their traces as they were torn apart.

وقمعت عفريت الغلا فهديته

والسيف أهدى للجهول واصدقُ

And you vanquished the brute of injustice, guiding him,

As the sword guides the ignorant and verifies.

وبذاك أمنت الحجيج وأُفهموا

أن الفريضة قربة لا مأزقُ

With this you gave security to pilgrims, helping them understand,

That the pilgrimage is a spiritual calling, not a coercion.

وهدمت كل عقيدة ممقوتة

كانت تضل بها العقول وترهقُ

You tore down every despised doctrine,

With which minds were misled and burdened.

ورفعت رأسك في الممالك عالياً

والملك حر والنظام موفقُ

You held your head high among kingdoms

With a free reign and harmonious system,

حتى إذا شب النزاع وحاولوا

أن تستميل وبصبصوا وتملقوا

Until discord grew, and they attempted

To persuade you, flattering with pretense and fawning.

خيبتهم وهمست في آذانهم

أن الجزيرة غابة لا تطرقُ

You disappointed them and whispered in their ears,

That Arabia is an inviolable forest.

وبنيت حول البيت أو حول الهدى

حصناً بأسباب النجوم يعلقُ

And you built around the Sacred House and Holy Guidance,

A fortress with locks of celestial bodies.

ماذا دهى الإنسان في أطواره

حتى نراه في الردى يتعشقُ

What misguided man in his pretenses,

Until we see him lost in misery engrossed?

يسعى ليلقي النار في أحشائه

ويخال أن سواه منها يحرقُ

Seeking to set himself on fire, assuming,

That others besides him are set ablaze?

إنا لنأسف للحضارة أن ترى

منهارة لكننا لا نفْرَقُ

We lament that civilization should witness,

Its own collapse, but we do not distinguish.

فلنا بنهضتنا وسالف مجدنا

شرف نفوز به إذا ما أخفقوا

For in our reawakening and past glory,

We have an honor to gain if they should fail.

سلهم عن النور الذي جئنا به

فاستصبحوا بضيائه واستشرقوا

Ask them about the light we brought,

With which they saw the dawn and were illuminated.

سدنا البلاد فما استقر قرارنا

حتى تلألأ غربها والمشرقُ

We secured the lands, and our resolve was unshaken,

Until its west and east shone bright.

سعد الضعيف برفقنا حتى إذا

ملكوا الضعيف بحكمهم لم يرفقوا

The weak were fortunate with our compassion, but when,

They ruled the weak with their dominion, they showed no mercy.

إنا لأعرق في المعالي منهم

وأحق منهم بالنهوض وأخلقُ

We are more virtuous than them in ideals,

And more deserving than them to rise and be dignified.

إن تسحق الدنيا معاول غيهم

فلنا بلاد حرة لا تسحقُ

If their misguided hammers should crush the world,

We have free lands that cannot be crushed.

ولسوف نشرق بالعلا إن غربوا

والشرق أحفل بالضياء وأليقُ

We will shine with knowledge if they are ignorant,

For the east is more richly endowed with illumination and grace.

والعيش لولا الطامعون ميسر

والمجد لولا الحاسدون محققُ

And life, if not for the covetous, would be easy,

And glory, if not for the envious, would be achieved.

ونفوسنا اللاتي سمت بجدودنا

هي لم تزل، لا بل أشد وأحنقُ

Our souls that aspired with our ancestors,

Remain undiminished, nay only firmer and more zealous.

فلقد تجرعنا كؤوساً مرة

لم يشربوا منها ولم يتذوقوا

For we have tasted bitter cups,

That they did not drink or savor.

واليوم حان بنا التفرق وأنجلى

لشعوبنا أن التفرق موبقُ

And today the time has come for us to part,

And for our peoples to know that parting is ruinous.

وتقشع الحلم الأنيق خداعه

فإذا الحقيقة مرة لا تونقُ

The elegant pretense of dreams is dispelled,

Exposing the bitter reality, graceless and unembellished.

وإذا الحقوق سليبة مهضومة

وإذا الوعود خديعة لا تصدُقُ

With rights usurped and infringed upon,

And promises deceitful and untrustworthy.

وإذا البلاد تمخضت عن منقذ

أدرى بإنقاذ الشعوب وأحذقُ

With the lands giving birth to a savior,

More knowing in delivering nations and more prudent.

وهبت له العليا معارج أفقها

فعلا بهمته التي لا تُسبَقُ

You granted him the lofty steps to your horizons,

Rising with his resolve that cannot be outstripped.

وسما إلى عرش يلوذ بركنه

من أيدوا الدين الحنيف وصدقوا

And he ascended to a Throne that takes refuge in its Pillar,

From a people who supported the True Faith and were sincere.

علموا بأن الله حارس بيته

يختار فيه من يشاء ويخلقُ

They knew that God guards His House,

Choosing in it whom He wills and creates.

ولرب يوم تزدهي أمم الهدى

بتراثها العالي الذي لا يخلِقُ

There will come a day when the people of guidance,

Will thrive with their lofty heritage that cannot be matched.

في ظل بيت الله تحت لوائه

فسموا بشرعته التي لا تمحقُ

In the shade of God's House beneath His Standard,

Rising with His Law that cannot be erased.

ونسير صفاً واحدا لا ينثني

بعواصف الدنيا ولا يتمزقُ

Marching together in unison, unbending,

Against the storms of worldly life, unfragmented.

فتول يا عبدالعزيز عزائماً

من أمة تهوى السمو وتعشقُ

Lead with resolve, O Abdulaziz,

Of a people who love loftiness and passion.

ولتحي في عرش القلوب مؤيدا

وليحيا شعب حول عرشك يُغدقُ

And live immortalized in the hearts’ Throne, supported,

With a people around your Throne bountiful and giving.

وإليك يا أسد الجزيرة خفقة

من قلب صب لم يزل بك يخفقُ

To you, O Lion of Arabia, a throbbing,

From a heart overflowing that pulsates for you.

ناءت بمحملها حنايا لوعتي

وهفت إليك بها القوافي السُبّقُ

My laments carried their burdens,

And the verses hastened to you, outpacing.

يمنيةً مكيةً نجديةً

قل ما تشاء فإنها لا تفرقُ

Yemeni, Meccan, Najdi,

Say what you will, they make no distinction.